What do you eat for breakfast

Steven,

I admire your determination about handling this disease. You have a GREAT attitude! One thing I have found is that starting on insulin (I'm at 12 units of Lantus at bedtime) was a simple step that really helped my numbers. (I have fibromyalgia so exercise is extremely painful for me.) If you should find that you need to use insulin in the future don't despair. For a man I would have to say that it's easier than shaving. I know that for myself I find it simpler than putting on mascara. Good luck to you, and a belated welcome to HealingWell.

I think a lot of us use cereals bcuz it has the fiber we need. Also cereal doesn't have cholesterol and i for one need to watch cholesterol.. I love cereal, Fiber One being my favorite.

I limit protein and especially animal protein bcuz i don't want to worsen my heart disease.. Hopefully everybody on this board is working with a dietician to make meal plans that work for them. Diabetes is a serious and individualized disease. No one plan fits all. Good luck.

Fergus, I am on a very high carb diet -- one rich in fruits and vegetables.  I regulary consume more than 250 gms of carbs per day and I eat little animal protein.  My bg's are fine, my last A1c was 5.5, my cholesterol is below normal, my triglycerides, etc. are all within the low-normal range.  I have had type 1 diabetes for 42 years and I'm still going strong.

Heart disease is rife in western cultures because of the kinds of carbohydrates being consumed and, to some degree, the over indulgence in animal protein.  If I tried your diet and my lipid profile went any lower, I'd be dead.

There is a reason that Mormons have one of the lowest rates of heart disease and cancer in the world.  And it's not from consuming protein and fat at the expense of complex carbs.

Jak

<I am more of a pre-diabetes rather than diabetic, so my bs level is not that high. Tthat said, here is what I do for breakfast.>

I tried various cold cereals with skim milk and soy milk, and post-breakfast bs is relatively high. I now like to eat oat meals with skim milk or soy milk. Make sure you use the old fashioned slow cooking conventional oatmeal, and do not overcook them. Less than al dante is best. DO NOT USE the instant type, it's pure sugar and will make your bs shoot up.

I also eat two egg whites; yolk coresterol is really no good for us. I will not touch bacon or sausage although I love the smell and taste of it, but we know better now. The saturated fat and colresterol will kill us before the sugar does its job.
Plus half a grapefruit, its acidity makes it one of the low glycemic index fruits. The more sour, the better. I used to hate any sour food, including sour dough bread. But now I love anything sour.  It's all in your head. Learn to love sour stuff. The sour stuff slows down the digestive process and brings down the GI.

And green tea.
George

Post Edited (gbulgari) : 3/3/2006 1:04:57 PM (GMT-7)

I like to have a one ounce slice of fresh mozzarella and a couple of slice of bacon baked in the oven.  I put the bacon on a rack in the toaster oven at 400 for about 10 minutes, this way the fat drips off and the bacon does shrivel up. This gives me 14g protien, 4 carbs and 15b fat.  You could substitute turkey bacon for a lower fat content. 

Once in a while, I substitute 1 cup dry cereal for the bacon.  Another substitute is low fat yogurt.